Internet affiliates have no direct contact with the customers' acquisition and lifetime spend e.g.; Affiliates don't get the customer to sign on the dotted line and take the deal back to the office. Affiliates do not process the payment transactions. In a word, most of this shaving stuff is
supposition.
Trust is a factor and you have to go where the money comes in. There is nothing anyone can say that will appease the doubts really. The other problem is that unless you make a large number of sales every day your selling pattern will run in streaks -- regardless of what you are selling -- this is a reality of sales.